A. Definitions:
ALLEY: | A public highway not designed for general travel and used primarily as a means of access to the rear of residences and business establishments. |
BOAT: | Any type of watercraft or vessel used primarily for transportation on the water. |
MOTOR HOME: | A motor vehicle or device primarily designed as a temporary living quarters for recreation, camping, or travel use. |
RECREATIONAL VEHICLE: | Any camp trailer, travel trailer or fifth wheel designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational camping or travel use, constructed with integral wheels to make it mobile and/or towable by motor vehicle. |
ROADWAY: | The portion of a highway improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the sidewalk or shoulder even though such sidewalk or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles. |
STORAGE CONTAINER: | Any large metal portable cargo container used to ship, store, or dispose of items of personal property. |
STORE or STORED: | Parking or placement of a nonmotorized towed trailer, recreational vehicle, boat, or motor home between the hours of two o'clock (2:00) A.M. through four o'clock (4:00) A.M. for three (3) consecutive days on any City street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way. |
UTILITY TRAILER: | A nonmotorized towed trailer designed and/or used to transport equipment or other devices or materials. |
B. Unless specifically allowed by permit issued by the City of Grangeville, no person shall cause a nonmotorized towed trailer, recreational vehicle, boat, or motor home to be:
1. Stored on any City street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way; or
2. Parked, placed or left unattended in a condition that renders the trailer, boat or motor home inoperable and unable to be moved; or
3. Parked, placed or left unattended in a manner that impedes or renders dangerous the movement of vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Parking a nonmotorized towed trailer, boat, or motor home on a City street within forty feet (40') of an intersection shall constitute an impediment to the movement of vehicular traffic.
C. No person shall live in or continuously occupy a recreational vehicle, camper, motor home, boat, or automobile within the City, except within a legally established recreational vehicle park or campground. The temporary short-term occupancy of a recreational vehicle parked on private property for a continuous period of up to fourteen (14) days shall not violate the provisions of this chapter. No private real property shall be used for the temporary short-term occupancy of a recreational vehicle exceeding more than twenty eight (28) total days per calendar year.
D. No person shall cause a storage container to be placed on any City street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way, unless specifically allowed by permit issued by the City of Grangeville.
E. Permits:
1. An individual may apply to the City of Grangeville for a permit to allow a utility trailer or storage container utilized for construction services in the City of Grangeville to be parked on a city street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way. Such permit may be issued by the City of Grangeville to permit parking of a utility trailer or storage container for a time frame not to exceed twenty-one (21) days. Said permit may be renewed in the discretion of the City.
2. A non-resident owner of a recreational vehicle or motor home may apply to the City of Grangeville for a permit to allow a recreational vehicle or motor home to be parked on a city street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way for a period of up to fourteen (14) days up to two (2) times a calendar year for the temporary housing of non-residents visiting the City of Grangeville.
F. The Public Works Department is authorized to temporarily prohibit any person from parking any motor vehicle or trailer on any city street, alley, roadway, or right-of-way to facilitate snow removal, street cleaning, repairs or other public works projects. The Public Works Department is hereby authorized to temporarily move any motor vehicle or trailer to facilitate the completion of any public works project, with or without prior advanced notice to the owner thereof.
G. Any person violating any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished pursuant to this Code and the Idaho Code. The imposition for any violation of this chapter shall not excuse such violation or permit such violation to continue.
H. Any trailer, boat, storage container or motor home in violation of the provisions of this chapter may be removed at any time at the direction of the Police Department without advance notice to the owner thereof. Any trailer, boat, storage container or motor home removed pursuant to this chapter shall be done at the owner's sole expense and may be stored in any public or private storage lot. The owner of any trailer, boat, storage container or motor home removed pursuant to this chapter shall be responsible for all reasonable towing and storage charges related to storage of the same. (Ord. 832, 9-4-2007; amd. Ord. 960, 10-17-2022)